(UPDATE) SEOUL — North Korea blew up sections of the deeply symbolic roads connecting it to South Korea on Tuesday, Seoul's military said, adding that it had conducted a 'counterfire' operation in response.
SEOUL — North Korea blew up sections of the deeply symbolic roads connecting it to South Korea on Tuesday, Seoul's military said, adding that it had conducted a 'counterfire' operation in response.Pyongyang's armed forces last week vowed to permanently seal its southern border after spending months laying mines and building anti-tank barriers in the wake of leader Kim Jong Un declaring South Korea his country's 'principal enemy.
This image from closed-circuit television footage shows part of the Gyeongui Line road, which connects South Korea’s border city of Paju to North Korea’s city of Kaesong, being blown up on Oct. 15, 2024. North Korea has detonated parts of the Gyeongui and Donghae roads north of the Military Demarcation Line ,' the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Tuesday, referring to inter-Korean infrastructure that once connected the two countries.'There has been no damage to our military, and our forces conducted counterfire in areas south of the MDL,' it added.
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